we're going to talk about this with terrence moore, sports contributor to cnn.com. terrence, this is an awful, awful story. >> yeah. >> were they right to play this game? >> no question about it. look, if the players want to play and if the coaches want to coach, you play the game. and romeo crennel, who witnessed the suicide, wanted to play, so you play. this is not a november 22nd, 1963, situation, okay? back then the commissioner of the nfl was a guy named pete rosel and he said the worst decision of his life was to play two days after the kennedy assassination. you still have participants of that weekend who resent him to this day. this is not that. >> this is something completely different. the players have been talking about it. it's a sad situation, but that was the way they honored him partly today. >> yeah, and they won the game. >> and they won the game. >> second victory in 12 games. >> he was looking out for them. let's put it that way. let's talk about college football. national title game is set. alabama won the classic game over georgia last night in